Inner Tube Youth (My friend Pat )
pjc 4/15/85- 4/3/05 When I was 19 I lost a dear friend to a drunk driving accident. Since today is his birthday I'd like to write about one of the most idyllic tines in my life. I want to write about the summer before his passing, the summer after I had squeaked out of high school, the summer when I had a new best friend. Pat j. Corbett and I bonded at Bonnaroo 2004 at The Dead show that was postponed until about 3 am due to tornado warning. The show was properly psychedelic and pat and I were quite psychedelically inclined. We navigated the scary spacey stuff of the 2nd set as a duo until it landed into the joyous roll of "Franklin's Tower." We survived the improvisational psychedelic set 2 skull fuck together and became inseparable. "If you get confused listen to the music play"- "Franklin's Tower", The Grateful fucking Dead When the 8-10 friends that I went to the festival with got home we were electrified by the shared exp...